I got a Nintendo Wii today from Best Buy this morning thanks to this website(explanation on another post). I didn’t plan to go out to get one but I woke up early due to the freezing California weather we are having. I fell asleep watching Shoguns Assassin on DVD last night. When I wakeup early on the weekends, I usually watch a DVD. The movie for this morning was The Cup. It’s about some young Tibetans exiled in India who are obsessed with the World cup. Great movie.

Anyway, so I decide to leave at around 8am to check out Target 1st to see if they have the Wii. Of course they didn’t have any and I headed out to Best Buy. There were about 50+ people in line when I got there (8:30ish). I didn’t exactly know what they were in line for at the time. They could’ve been there for other items. I decided to check out Best Buy based on a rumor I read on Gizmodo. Apparently they were supposed to get a shipment in on Friday for their Sunday ads. I should have checked the online ad to verify but I wasn’t that clever. So I get in line and wait about 15 mins in the cold waiting to hear some news from the people in line or a Best Buy employee. A few minutes later some Shawn Wayans looking employee asks that we move from 1 end of the building to the other. Later I see him taking names down of the people in line for the Wii. There were 63 and I was #52. Here’s a photo of the stub they handed out to the lucky few.

So while I’m standing in line, everybody is talking and getting excited. I was just there chillin’ and not talking to anybody. There was this lady who was in front of me who was just a yapper. I knew she was gonna be trouble right when I got in line. When I’m in these type of situations, I don’t talk to anyone unless necessary. I don’t try to make some connection or be a friend. Just because you are in line with them, it doesn’t mean you have to talk to them. It’s not necessary! I don’t give a fuck if you you went to 3 ToysRus stores last week. I wouldn’t talk to you in the streets. Standing in line together doesn’t change things. It’s like those nerds you see everyday at school and never speak to. When they see you outside school like at a mall, they try to talk to you.

Moving on: Out of the 63 people who got a Wii, about 10 were Pinoy. Most of them were with their parents. Some comments I heard while in line were:

Read about the Pinoys and view more photos after the jump….

Check out PinoyWii.com

A mother speaking in Tagalog loudly on her cellphone

Nandito kami sa Best Buy. I’m getting a Wii for Jonathan and Jimboy! Wii! Wii! (she had to scream it 3x because the other person on the phone did not understand or hear her). Yung bagong bideo game.

A father talking to his son in English

You betterrrr be nice to me, okay? I’ll play da boooxing later, huh? You share with your bother and study your homework.

Etc, etc, etc…..shit was cute and funny.

When I was setting up the country, there was no Philippines. Why? Maybe it’s on the Asian versions of the Wii? Does anyone know?